News Details

Raikkonen takes measured victory in Melbourne

Kimi Raikkonen opened his 2013 campaign with a victory at the Australian Grand Prix, making use of a two-stop strategy to beat Fernando Alonso to victory by 12.4s. Raikkonen's long second stint was the key to his race as he kept in touch with Sebastian Vettel and the two Ferraris, who led the race early on. Raikkonen remained out on track preserving his tyres as the cars around him adopted three-stop strategies, while Alonso managed to shuffle his way ahead of team-mate Felipe Massa and Vettel. As Alonso emerged from the pits after his third and final stop, Raikkonen was sitting pretty with a 7.7s lead which he was able to extend on his way to victory. Behind him Alonso finished 9.8s ahead...
Full Story »
12y ago from espnF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Raikkonen takes emphatic victory

Kimi Raikkonen played a two-stop strategy to perfection to beat Fernando...
12y ago from AutoSport.com

Raikkonen wins Australian GP at Melbourne

Kimi Raikkonen has converted a brilliantly working 2-stop strategy to a...
12y ago from F1Technical.net

Hamilton: Alonso is the fastest and is the guy I want...

11 March, 2013 Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonsovv Lewis Hamilton has...
12y ago from YallaF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Marc Marquez: Misano MotoGP victory was the...

Marc Marquez bounced back from his first MotoGP Sprint race retirement of...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Zak Brown addresses three areas IndyCar can improve

McLaren CEO Zak Brown penned an open letter on Monday outlining his...

IndyCar releases new-look 2026 IndyCar schedule

The 2026 schedule for the NTT IndyCar Series has been released, and it...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'Exceptional' Arsenal star might force Gunners...

The superb form of Arsenal left-back Riccardo Calafiori looks to have had...
15h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Athletic Bilbao 0-2 Arsenal: Champions League – as...

riel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard came off the bench to get Arsenal’s...
1d ago from TheGuardian.com

Exclusive: Arsenal praised for pulling off 'absolute...

Arsenal have been praised for the 'absolute steal' they pulled off with...
17h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'There's no way that those guys should catch you' -...

Former Arsenal forward Thierry Henry has criticized Viktor Gyokeres's ball...
9h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.